Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 894

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 025
9. My First Mission (1)
Ghost Busters is being produced as a series.
Following the current trend, they launched the game corresponding to Act 1 first.
Then they plan to sell the subsequent content as expansion packs.
‘This… at this rate…’
That’s why Manager Kim couldn’t help but feel anxious.
The current launched game’s content volume is shorter than it should be.
Instead, the difficulty is relatively high, so the play time during alpha testing was quite lengthy.
‘Will it really be finished in just a week?’
Starting from this university to uncover clues about the incident and catching the culprit—that’s one complete story arc.
Even though they’ve only entered the Theology Building out of the entire university campus, their progression speed was exceptional.
Most importantly, Manager Kim just witnessed how this duo’s greatest weakness, “intellectual gameplay,” was being covered.
‘Luck!’
No matter how I thought about it, I couldn’t attach any other word to it.
This was pure luck.
Balloon Gum’s innate, overwhelming fortune.
It seemed like a far more powerful force than any physical ability or so-called mental prowess.
‘It was just mindless trolling, pulling and thrashing around. Yet it made the bell drop.’
If Balloon Gum hadn’t dropped that bell, this duo would have wandered quite a bit here.
Almond is a player who can barely think of anything other than dodging everything and pounding away.
And Balloon Gum is a player afflicted by a bug where his body won’t move as he thinks.
Yet luck filled that void.
Gulp.
Manager Kim swallowed dryly, watching Manager Kim Gwajang’s expression.
“What… what is this? Didn’t you say Almond doesn’t use his head well? He figured out the bell quickly?”
He pointed it out as expected.
It couldn’t be helped.
He probably wanted to see this duo get toyed with by intellectual gameplay, their weakness.
But they resolved it more anticlimactically than expected.
Moreover, Almond didn’t brute-force his way through—this time he broke through with proper strategy.
“Oh, it was just luck. Balloon Gum dropped it…'”
“No. Almondo? That person uses strategy!”
This crazy guy.
Manager Kim almost blurted out “You believe that?”
But he barely held back and explained.
“The Grade 3 Dokkaebi are just there for fun. They have slightly unique strategies that make them entertaining.”
It wasn’t a lie.
Hip-hop Dokkaebi? Who would seriously make something like this? They were extra mob enemies made for fun.
“Hey. But they finished before the song was even completely sung. Didn’t you say that song was outsourced?”
“…B-but the next yokai is different. What I mentioned earlier was about the next one.”
“Sigh… Fine. Next… Please, just die once!”
Kim Gwajang was now openly cursing the two of them.
And rightfully so—this game’s fundamental mechanic was playing while dying.
It would be nice if the ones advertising could just die for once.

* * *
After all the dokkaebi were dead.
Balloon Gum’s voice became noticeably more confident.
“Did you see that!? Everyone! Wahaha! When your big brother does it, he does it right?”
-?
-??
Hahahahaha
If you couldn’t even do that, you would’ve become almond target practice long ago lol
You did well this time lol
That’s hilarious, you’re so petty ㅋㅋㅋ
“No, honestly I killed all eight of them myself~!”
Balloon Gum defeated a total of eight dokkaebi in this battle.
He essentially killed almost all of them.
Of course, the structure made it inevitable.
Ding.
[Fact Killer donated 10,000 won.]
[Goalkeeper: No, honestly I guard the goal all by myself~]
Hahahahahaha
-Haha, gasp!
-Real talk
Hahahahaha
Haha, that’s perfect!
At such a painfully accurate analogy, Balloon Gum shut his mouth completely.
“Sharp-eyed bastards….”
He could only grind his teeth and blame the viewers in the end.
But as always, it was Balloon Gum who lost the fight against the viewers.
Ding.
[Korean Language Guardian donated 5,000 won.]
[Do you know the origin of the word “kkeom”? When people faced the streamer Balloon Gum, they’d say “Huh? It’s kkeom?” and over time, it became a word meaning something easy and simple…]
“Long message ban!”
The donation was immediately banned, but the sound remained and echoed through the stream.
It was the origin of Korean language read in a clear announcer’s voice.
Hahahahaha
Lol seriously, it’s so similar
-Kids are gonna think that’s real lol
-Fun fact) It’s described that way on the wiki too
-Lmaooo
“You guys might not believe me, but honestly? Suyeon would, right? Huh?”
Now that I thought about it, Balloon Gum held this belief.
「Could she really act that way just because of looks? I think it’s more about… performance difference? Something like that.」
The reason Suyeon treated him casually wasn’t because of his appearance, but because of the difference in their performance levels.
“Suyeon?”
Balloon Gum finally spoke up.
-Why would he bring that up lol
-Oh no
-Disaster incoming;
-But he did well this time though?
Since he rarely got chances to perform, he had to firmly establish control with the viewers whenever he did something right.
“Mister, how was that? Just now.”
“Uh… what?”
“You just cleared out all the dokkaebi.”
“Uh… really?”
“?”
Balloon Gum waited with a question mark in his eyes, but that was all.
-Lmaooooooooo
-Hahahaha
-Oh my goddd lol
-Uh… really? Lol omg lol
-Lmao
It was because of my ugly face ㅠㅠ
-???: Male Lead #1 screamed.
“No wait. Suyeon must be really tired, huh? Wahaha! Makes sense! You blocked the dokkaebi’s attacks so many times, so you probably don’t even have the energy to get up…”
“Oppa!”
Just then, Suyeon suddenly jumped up and rushed toward Almond.
“Huh, what? Why?”
“Your clothes are all dirty!”
Almond had been rummaging through the corner of the warehouse. Dust had fallen from there.
“Ah… oh no, what do I do!”
Suyeon frantically brushed off the dust with her hands.
Balloon Gum’s expression went blank for a moment.
Contrary to his feelings, donations flooded in.
Ding.
[Suyeon donated 30,000 won.]
[Sprung up!]
-HAHAHAHAHAHA
-JUMPS UP! LMAOOO
-LITERALLY SHOOTS OUT LIKE A ROCKET HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
-Stop it 🙁
Ding!
[Game Moderator donated 50,000 won.]
[This game is cyberbullying. I’m reporting it. :(]
-Why is he crying?
-The moderator’s crying LMAO
-Ahh~ a hardworking civil servant!
Ding!
[Lownix donated 10,000 won.]
[Almond semiconductor theory~]
-LMAO he acts like he’ll die if dust touches him
-Same, I was confused when he suddenly shot out like that
-This is the life of an alpha…
Balloon Gum agreed wholeheartedly with the donations’ comments.
He even agreed a hundred times over with the Game Moderator’s words.
But since he’d already taken on this game’s advertisement, he held back.
“Look, this isn’t that kind of game~”
-Wipe your tears, hyung 🙁
-LMAO the weight of being a provider 🙁
-I remember… Suyeon Oh.

* * *
“There’s nothing else worth taking from the warehouse.”
Meanwhile, I rummaged through the warehouse for a while, wondering if there might be something more suitable for a Shaman.
All I found were piles of talismans.
“Still, I’m grateful I managed to gather more talismans at least….”
I gazed at a sword with lingering regret.
==== ====
[Demon-Subduing Divine Blade]
A sacred sword used in the rituals of a legendary Shaman.
A blade capable of channeling spiritual power and influencing the spirit realm.
*Your current spiritual power is insufficient to become the wielder of this weapon.
==== ====
Even after capturing all the Dokkaebi, my spiritual power still wasn’t enough, apparently.
It seemed something had gone wrong with the way I’d defeated the Jibakryeong.
“I’ll just take this with me for now.”
-So attached to it lol
-Almond just likes swords, just likes them
-Do whatever you want lol why are you asking
The viewers initially tried to dissuade me from taking the sword.
Carrying an unusable weapon like that in such intense combat situations would be extremely cumbersome.
This was a characteristic of virtual reality-based games.
Fighting while wearing or carrying something at your waist was incredibly inconvenient.
So unless the inventory was set up as a virtual space, it was the general tendency among players to discard anything useless.
You could always come back later and pick it up if you needed it.
“I’ll take it with me~”
I ignored them and just took it anyway.
Ding.
[Gaji-bokkeun donated 1,000 won.]
[Unknown: Just take it without saying anything.]
-Hahahaha
-Lol
-He says what he wants! Gaja Cola!
-Scratching with 1,000 won is a bit risky lol
That’s insane, a thousand won punch
“…Gaji-bokkeun. You’re getting 30 minutes.”
-??
-Huh lol
-Lol
-30 minute ban lol
-Lol
-Looks like he got scratched lol
‘Why are they telling me not to take it?’
Almond grabbed his weapon and stepped out of the warehouse.
“Everyone, remember? I was the one who figured out that bell strategy all by myself. I saw the entire chat back then. Nobody knew about it. Right?”
-This guy really got scratched lol
-Why is he so sensitive about strategies lol
-He means don’t backseat game about weapons
-A man who wants what he can’t have… that’s Almondo.
-Just admit it already lol lol
Almond’s eyes turned toward the chat. He was clearly about to make an example of someone.
-Oh no, bow!
-Strategy? Almondo! Strategy? Almondo! Strategy?
That’s so funny/hilarious.
-Strategy? Almondo! Strategy? Almondo! Strategy? Almondo!
After watching “Strategy? Almondo!” flood the chat for another few lines, Almond finally nodded.
“Very well. I think we need to head to the third floor now.”
Since the children were supposedly trapped somewhere on the third floor, that would be our destination.
“Based on my deduction, there should be something on the second floor, which is on the way.”
-Stop deducing
-If the second floor gets deduced too, does it die now?
The university building is facing demolition.
-Stop redevelopment~
Though it was quite an obvious deduction, people feared Almondo’s reasoning.
“No, there’s really something big on the second floor.”
-?
-ed
-What are you saying lol
-How would you know that lol
-There probably is lol
-You already killed the big one on the first floor lol
“You’ll be really shocked when you get to the second floor.”
Almond spoke with such confidence, as if he’d left something waiting there.
-Did you go ahead and check beforehand?
-How would you even know that??
-He’s obsessed with something weird again lol
And so Almond climbed the stairs.
He passed through the empty first floor and reached the second floor.
And he made his announcement.
“Well, that was fun~”
Today’s broadcast ended there.
-Hahahaha
and… lol
Haha, that’s so funny ㅋㅋㅋ
Hahahaha
My broadcasting skills skyrocketed lol
-Seriously already??
It’s been a while since I’ve come back, so it looks like I won’t be able to stay long ㅠ

* * *
The ones truly deflated by the sudden broadcast cancellation weren’t the viewers at all.
“W… th, this one’s different! Huh? Going! Second floor! Now heading to the second floor… what?”
It was Kim Gwajang and Manager Kim.
“Huh?”
They’d expected to play for at least eight hours or more today.
Such thinking was only possible because they didn’t know Almond’s circumstances precisely.
“Ah… no. He’s leaving before getting properly schooled!?”
Manager Kim protested as if feeling wronged.
At this, Kim Gwajang even harbored suspicion.
“By the way, how did he know what’s on the second floor? Don’t tell me he heard something from Balloon Gum?”
“Ah, no sir. That couldn’t be it. He wouldn’t do that even for the sake of fun.”
“No. But how did he find out?”
“That’s….”
Well, I don’t know.
In Manager Kim’s assessment, there was a high probability that the guy was just messing with the viewers.
“Argh! What’s with the timing of this broadcast cancellation!”
To the thoroughly irritated Kim Gwajang, it didn’t appear that way at all.
“Still, at least we get to go home early, right?”
“Ha… yeah. It’s better than doing an all-nighter broadcast anyway.”
“Ah, and we even saved a day’s worth of ad time, didn’t we?”
“…oh?”
Kim Gwajang, preoccupied with the thought of properly schooling Almond with a yokai.
He hadn’t considered that Almond’s broadcast cancellation was actually a factor that increased ad time.
“Now that you mention it, that’s true? Huh? We saved a whole day?”
“Right? Day by day, this is about two times faster than a day’s progress from gamers who play long hours.”
“It’s really that much faster?”
Most gamers typically play at least ten hours as a baseline.
Yet playing only half that time and making several times more progress than that.
That alone was extremely unfair, but still, the gap wasn’t that large?
“The situation is much better than I initially thought. I was seriously thinking like ten times the speed, you know?”
“Geez. Still, ten times is a bit much.”
“No, it’s a game where you’re supposed to die, but since he doesn’t, the gap keeps widening.”
When the Jibakryeong flew away, Manager Kim didn’t show it, but he was nearly in despair.
Given the game’s nature, if you fall behind, you’d spend over 80% of your time dying and replaying.
But what if Almond barely died at all?
That meant he could cut the playtime by nearly 80%.
But if the playtime was this short, things were different.
At least it would stretch out to cover the advertisement slots.
“Wow. I see. Phew… Thank goodness. Huh? I was worried the broadcast wouldn’t last long.”
“Right? Even if it goes for just two weeks, that’s a massive hit.”
“Even one week would be a massive hit.”
Swelling with thoughts of promotion again, he left work with a happy smile.
But that happiness didn’t last long.
Because of what happened in the next day’s broadcast.
“No! What is this!?”
“Ugh… W-why? This isn’t a competitor, is it? Insane!?”

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